It is certainly possible that few people were affected by the Basilisk, and the people who do the censoring either overestimate the number or are just using it as an excuse. But this reflects badly on LW all by itself, and also amounts to “you cannot trust the people who do the censoring”, a position which is at least as unpopular as my initial one.
It is certainly possible that few people were affected by the Basilisk, and the people who do the censoring either overestimate the number or are just using it as an excuse. But this reflects badly on LW all by itself, and also amounts to “you cannot trust the people who do the censoring”, a position which is at least as unpopular as my initial one.
I would guess that the dislike of censorship is not an unpopular position, whatever its motivations.